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Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it.The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jews during the Third Reich in 1939.That's when they ordered all German Jews to bring their personal silver objects to pawn shops across the Reich one of many laws created to humiliate, punish and exclude the Jews.

England will welcome Tonga for a historic three-match Test series in October and November.The contests, which will be played at St Helens on October 22, Huddersfield six days later and Headingley the following week, will mark a maiden international series between the two countries.It is understood the initial plan was to invite New Zealand over and while that fell through, England head coach Shaun Wane, leading the side on Saturday for the first time since last November's World Cup semi-final loss to Samoa when they take on France, insisted Tonga will pose a formidable challenge.

Head coach Gareth Murray is determined to secure a tangible step in his ambition to make Caledonia Gladiators Britain's biggest basketball club when they compete in Sunday's BBL Trophy final.The final against Cheshire Phoenix at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow offers the chance to bring major silverware to Scotland for the first time since the Scottish Rocks won the BBL play-offs 20 years ago.

On Thursday 18 May people across Northern Ireland voted to elect new local councils, two weeks after many voters in England did the same.There are 11 local council areas in Northern Ireland, from Derry City and Strabane in the west to Belfast in the east.As in the rest of the UK, local councils in Northern Ireland have responsibility for local services including recycling and waste collection, planning, health and environmental enforcement, parks and leisure facilities.

The average new monthly rent outside London has passed 1,000 for the first time, figures show, with tenants in Great Britain now typically paying 25% more than they were at the start of the Covid pandemic.The estate agent Hamptons, which issued the data, warned that the rate of rent rises was unlikely to slow considerably due to the number of landlords looking to pass on their rising costs and this may force some tenants to downsize or relocate to a cheaper area.

Increasing numbers of landlords are profiting from letting bad housing to some of society's most vulnerable people, the National Audit Office has found.Gaps in regulation are allowing property owners to profit by providing costly, sub-standard supported housing with little or no support, supervision or care, the spending watchdog said.

All eyes are on London this weekend with the coronation of King Charles III.Regardless of your feelings on England's monarchyeither as a symbol of ancient tradition and gracious manners or repression and misallocated public fundsthere's no denying that this first coronation of a new monarch for the U.K. in over 75 years is a historic occasion.